Über den kanadischen Gesundheitswissenschaftler Timothy Caulfield und sein Buch

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash“

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Jetzt ist bei Point of Inquiry ein Audio-Interview mit Caulfield erschienen:

Celebrities have always played an oversized role in our culture, and there’s nothing new about them using their star power to endorse ideas or products.

But we now live in a time in which mass media consumption is greater than ever before, and the celebrities we revere are now at our fingertips, often only tweet away. This constant bombardment of celebrity culture is proving to have a greater impact on how we live our lives than we may even realize.

Even if you aim to ignore celebrity endorsement, the ripple effects in our hyper-connected world are often unavoidable.

This week on Point of inquiry, Lindsay Beyerstein chats with Tim Caulfield, law professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta, as well as the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy. Caulfield is here to discuss his newest public health book, Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash.

Caulfield’s research provides new insight into just how much of our well-being is at the mercy of our favorite stars.“

Hier geht’s zum Podcast (zirka 35 Minuten).

Zum Weiterlesen:

• Overwhelmed by Celebrity Culture, with Tim Caulfield, CFI am 15. Juni 2015
• Interview mit Timothy Caulfield: „Zurück zu Wasser und Seife“, Spiegel-Online am 28. März 2015
• „Amy Farrah Fowler“ will keine Impfgegnerin mehr sein, GWUP-Blog am 11. Februar 2015
• Promi-Kultur à la Gwyneth Paltrow: Hort der Pseudowissenschaft, GWUP-Blog am 1. April 2015
• Why do we believe celebrity pseudoscience? CBS-News am 5. Februar 2015
• Timothy Caulfield: Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash. Viking, New York 2015
• Stellungnahme „Public Health in Deutschland“ – wer hört die Botschaft? Gesundheits-Check am 20. Juni 2015